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• Montreal splash pads remain open with record-high temperatures expected over the weekend

  22-09-2017 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  At the splash pad in Valois Park in Pointe-Claire, you would have no idea fall had begun.
  
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• Youth housing plagued by delays in Beaconsfield

  22-09-2017 23:49 via globalnews.ca
  New buildings that were supposed to open in Beaconsfield to house troubled teens have stood empty for over a year. As Global’s Tim Sargeant reports, Batshaw Youth and Family Centres says they likely won’t open until fall 2018 because of an apparent lack of funding.
  
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• Premier Philippe Couillard makes plea for English speakers to move back to Quebec

  22-09-2017 23:43 via globalnews.ca
  Premier Philippe Couillard is trying to encourage anglophones who've left the province to come back home.
  
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• Anglos, come home: Philippe Couillard

  22-09-2017 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec premier Philippe Couillard is trying to encourage anglophones who have left the province to come back. As Global’s Raquel Fletcher reports, the government has a plan to entice English speakers to return.
  
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• Montreal election billboards going up

  22-09-2017 23:29 via globalnews.ca
  Take a look around Montreal and you may notice some new decorations – campaign billboards are starting to line the streets ahead of the Nov. 5 municipal elections. Global’s Amanda Jelowicki reports.
  
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• South Shore man sentenced to 34 months for role in Ponzi scheme

  22-09-2017 23:05 via montrealgazette.com
  A 61-year-old South Shore resident has been sentenced to a 34-month prison term ‎for his role in a Ponzi scheme that bilked more than200 investors out of $19 million.
  Benoît Sénécal of Longueuil admitted to using bank accounts in his name to ‎launder money that was collected in the fraudulent investment scheme from people in the Greater Montreal area and in the Eastern Townships.
  Sénécal was arrested in 2013 along with six other people after the Sû
  
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• Retiring to Shakespeare's Elbow: Côte-St-Luc bridge club spans the ages

  22-09-2017 22:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Back in 1960, two young Montrealers met on a baseball diamond in the Adirondacks when their summer camps came together to compete and that chance encounter evolved into a lifelong friendship chiefly centred on what some people say is the smartest card game ever invented — bridge.
  Nearly six decades later, the pair runs Canada’s largest bridge club right in the heart of Côte-St-Luc on the fourth floor of the Quartier Cavendish and that bridge club, named Shakespeare’s Elbo
  
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• Montreal to build recycling sorting centre in Lachine

  22-09-2017 22:52 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal’s executive committee approved a $49-million contract for a new sorting centre for recyclables in the Lachine borough.
  The contract was awarded to La Compagnie de recyclage de papiers M D Inc., which will design, build and operate the facility. 
  The sorting centre for recyclable materials is part of the master plan for waste management. The new facility will be able to handle at least 100,000 tonnes per year. The city wants it to be LEED GOLD certified,
  
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• Montreal municipal election campaign gets underway

  22-09-2017 22:28 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal's municipal election campaign is getting underway, with 1.1 million people eligible to cast their ballots.
  
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• Police, SAAQ launch crackdown on distracted driving in Quebec

  22-09-2017 22:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Text or drive. You must choose.That is the theme of the campaign launched Friday by several Quebec police departments and the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec.
  The campaign will cover the entire territory of Quebec and all forms of distracted driving, but will especially target those who text while driving.
  Every year, about 12,000 people are injured in accidents and one of the major causes is distracted driving, said Lt. Jason Allard, a spokesman for t
  
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• Stu Cowan: Habs' Jordie Benn wears grandpa's memories on his sleeve

  22-09-2017 22:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Any Canadiens player who doesn’t want to be recognized when dining out in Montreal shouldn’t bring Jordie Benn along.
  A baseball cap pulled down low and maybe a pair of sunglasses can be enough for some Canadiens players to go out incognito. But it’s impossible to hide Benn’s big, bushy beard.
  “A few of the boys want me to shave it off so I quit getting recognized,” Benn said in the Canadiens’ Brossard locker room after a practice this week. “As bi
  
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• Opinion: Tax proposals target the rich? Don't believe it

  22-09-2017 21:55 via montrealgazette.com
  On July 18, the federal Liberal government announced drastic and far-reaching changes to the tax system affecting private corporations. Although many have voiced their opposition to the measures, a significant portion of the population believe they are justified and necessary. 
  There appears to be a perception that high-income earners are somehow using corporations to gain an unfair tax advantage and the government is simply closing loopholes that are being exploited by an entitled minority
  
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• Suspect in Amber Alert case to be transferred back to Quebec: police

  22-09-2017 21:51 via globalnews.ca
  The 41-year-old had reportedly been in a coma after an alleged suicide attempt in police custody.
  
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• West Island runner disappointed after Montreal marathon cancelled due to hot weather

  22-09-2017 21:35 via globalnews.ca
  The Rock 'n' Roll Oasis Montreal Marathon has been cancelled.
  
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• Opinion: Five things this Canadiens fan won't put up with this season

  22-09-2017 21:30 via montrealgazette.com
  I will break a lot of promises to myself this hockey season.
  I could tell you “I swear I won’t yell at the television” or “I won’t get into a Habs-related argument at your uncle’s funeral” or “I’m not drinking on weeknights anymore.” But we both know those would be lies.
  As we stand at the cusp of another soul-crushing Montreal Canadiens campaign, here are five things I will barely put up with this year.
  An inspirational story about a p
  
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• Opinion: Boeing's attack on C-Series is unjustified

  22-09-2017 21:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Tension is mounting in the conflict between Bombardier and U.S. aerospace giant Boeing.
  In May, Boeing asked the International Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Commerce to look at Bombardier’s sale of 75 C-Series aircraft to Delta Airlines and urged the U.S. government to impose disproportionate and unjustified tariffs against our flagship product.
  Over the past few days, the heartfelt interventions of the prime ministers of Canada and Britain as well as the protests of hundreds
  
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• Ottawa investing $6 million in Marianopolis College for labs, energy efficiency

  22-09-2017 21:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The federal government and Marianopolis College and its supporters will spend $13.7 million on projects to upgrade the institution’s labs and improve the building’s energy efficiency.
  Ottawa is investing $6.02 million in the projects via its Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund, while Marianopolis College and its partners are providing $7.69 million.
  In total, universities and colleges throughout Quebec will receive nearly $1.1 bill
  
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• Suspect in Amber Alert case to be transferred back to Quebec today

  22-09-2017 20:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec provincial police say the suspect at the centre of last week’s Amber Alert case will be transferred today from an Ottawa hospital to Quebec.
  Provincial police Sgt. Ann Mathieu wouldn’t say where the suspect will be transferred in the province.
  The 41-year-old had allegedly been in a coma after an alleged suicide attempt in police custody.
  Quebec police issued an Amber Alert for the suspect’s six-year-old boy after they discovered the body of the child’s mother last
  
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• Textbook raises questions about representation of slavery in Quebec curriculum

  22-09-2017 20:33 via cbc.ca
  An excerpt from a Quebec textbook depicting slavery has raised concern among some parents on the legitimacy of the province’s curriculum, and whether it promotes an erasure of history.
  
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• Inside the CFL: Alouettes' problems begin at the top, Larry Smith says

  22-09-2017 19:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Gone but not forgotten, Larry Smith still fields occasional phone calls from Montreal media members perplexed over the plight of the Alouettes, using him as a sounding board.
  And whenever he’s in the city, people still stop him to ask if he will eventually return to the organization for which he played from 1972-80, then spent a dozen years as team president over two terms. Officially, Smith claimed the thought has never crossed his mind, and it’s doubtful the Wetenhall family&n
  
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• Stay cool, Montreal: Late September heat wave prompts call for caution

  22-09-2017 19:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Urgences-santé and Montreal Marathon officials are urging caution ahead of the weekend events in the city, with temperatures reaching an unseasonably high 30 degrees Celsius on Saturday and Sunday, and that’s before the humidex factor.
  The humidex is a measure of how hot we are likely to feel; Environment Canada is forecasting a humidex of 37 for Saturday. 
  Even though the 42-kilometre marathon has been cancelled, the half marathon and other races are going ahead as planned.&nb
  
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• 'It was just a conversation,' not an energy plan with CAQ, Wynne says

  22-09-2017 19:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says she was misunderstood by Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault during a private conversation Thursday, and in doing so seems to have tacitly accused the opposition leader of committing an online gaffe.
  In a tweet issued on Thursday, Legault claimed to have won the support of Wynne for his party’s energy policy. “The premier of Ontario is open to the CAQ plan to build new dams to export electricity to Ontario,” he
  
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• Quebec renews — but modifies — Uber pilot project

  22-09-2017 18:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec is renewing for another year its pilot project with Uber, with some modifications, said Transport Minister Laurent Lessard on Friday.
  However, the ride-sharing company will have to abide by a few new rules.
  Lessard said that all Uber drivers will now have to go through a police background check rather than one by a private firm used by Uber. Drivers will also now have to undergo 35 hours of training (up from 20) to match what taxi drivers in Montreal must undergo.
  This is the only extensi
  
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• Marianopolis College gets $13.7 million for labs, energy efficiency

  22-09-2017 18:56 via montrealgazette.com
  The federal government and Marianopolis College and its supporters will spend $13.7 million on projects to upgrade the institution’s labs and improve the building’s energy efficiency.
  Ottawa is investing $6.02 million in the projects via its Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund, while Marianopolis College and its partners are providing $7.69 million.
  In total, universities and colleges throughout Quebec will receive nearly $1.1 bill
  
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• Denis Coderre officially launches his re-election campaign

  22-09-2017 18:50 via cbc.ca
  After handing in his nomination papers at City Hall Friday morning, Coderre told reporters that after four years of getting things done, he and his team plan to do more of the same in their second mandate.
  
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• Two more plead guilty to corruption, collusion in Laval

  22-09-2017 18:39 via montrealgazette.com
  And then there were three.
  Only three of the 37 people who were charged in 2013 in Project Honorer, the investigation into widespread corruption and collusion that plagued Laval’s city hall from 1996 to 2010, have charges pending after two more accused pleaded guilty on Friday, Claude Desjardins and Giuliano Giuliani.
  With the guilty pleas accepted by Superior Court Justice James Brunton, the only people who have charges pending in Project Honorer are construction entrepreneur Antonio
  
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• 5 Montreal stories you must read this week: September 22

  22-09-2017 18:38 via globalnews.ca
  From an invasion of painted ladies to a child waiting hours for treatment at the Montreal Children's Hospital, here are the top five stories Global News covered in Montreal this week.
  
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• Witness sought in Amber Alert case cleared of involvement: SQ

  22-09-2017 18:28 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec said Friday that the witness it was looking for in the case involving Ugo Fredette has been identified and met with police.
  He has been cleared of any involvement in the case.
  The SQ was looking for him as a possible witness in the case in which Fredette faces charges. Fredette’s partner, Véronique Barbe, was found dead in her St-Eustache home Sept. 14, and an Amber Alert was triggered when officials realized her son was missing. The boy
  
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• After emerging from coma, Ugo Fredette transferred to Quebec hospital

  22-09-2017 18:27 via cbc.ca
  Ugo Fredette, who was arrested last week in connection with an Amber Alert case, has been transferred to a Quebec hospital, where he is expected to be questioned by investigators.
  
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• After emerging from coma, Ugo Fredette transferred to hospital in Saint-Eustache

  22-09-2017 18:27 via cbc.ca
  Ugo Fredette, who was arrested last week in connection with an Amber Alert case, has been transferred to a hospital in Saint-Eustache, where he is expected to be questioned by investigators.
  
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• After emerging from coma, Ugo Fredette being transferred to Quebec hospital

  22-09-2017 18:27 via cbc.ca
  Ugo Fredette, who was arrested last week in connection with an Amber Alert case, will be transferred by ambulance to a Quebec hospital today, where he is expected to be questioned by investigators.
  
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• Cannabis at heart of discussions as Quebec, Ontario meet

  22-09-2017 18:06 via globalnews.ca
  The legalization of cannabis will be at the heart of discussions as Quebec and Ontario cabinets meet Friday in Quebec City.
  
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• Montreal has more power, autonomy under new provincial law

  22-09-2017 17:53 via cbc.ca
  The City of Montreal has sweeping new powers in areas ranging from the economy to housing to immigration under provincial legislation passed Thursday in Quebec City.
  
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• Sûreté du Québec officer guilty of manslaughter in teen's shooting death

  22-09-2017 17:32 via cbc.ca
  A Sûreté du Québec officer has been found guilty of manslaughter by Court of Quebec judge Joëlle Roy in connection with a fatal shooting of a teenager.
  
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• Canadian team heads to Paris in effort to keep World Anti-Doping Agency in Montreal

  22-09-2017 17:32 via globalnews.ca
  The offices have been in Montreal since 2001 and employ about 85 people.
  
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• BT Panel: Montreal's election campaign kicks off - Pt. 1 btmontreal.ca/videos/bt-pane… and Pt. 2 btmontreal.ca/videos/bt-pane… are now online

  22-09-2017 17:27
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  22-09-2017 17:26
  
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• First Look: iPhone 8 Plus btmontreal.ca/videos/first-l… https://t.co/okJIDqYeDi

  22-09-2017 17:24
  
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• Healthy on the Go Breakfast Ideas! btmontreal.ca/videos/healthy…

  22-09-2017 17:22
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• Why Jean Fortier wants to be Montreal's next mayor btmontreal.ca/videos/why-jea…

  22-09-2017 16:51
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• These are all the hurricanes that hit Canada since 1900

  22-09-2017 16:22 via cbc.ca
  This year's hurricane season has wrought destruction on the Caribbean and the United States, but Canada has experienced almost nothing like its southern neighbours. Here's a look at hurricanes in Canada over the last century.
  
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• Quebecers spot buffalo wing poutine on Reddit, scream bloody murder

  22-09-2017 16:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Cultural ownership of poutine is a fraught subject. Is it a Canadian dish or does saying so count as “cultural appropriation” of a québécois staple?
  The latest episode of the poutine wars occurred on Thursday, when the reaction to a picture of “buffalo wing poutine” forced the temporary closure of a Reddit thread. 
  “This post is locked because the Canadians are revolting against the food establishment and insisting that there is some form of purit
  
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• Halsey's Bell Centre show cancelled

  22-09-2017 16:17 via montrealgazette.com
  The Halsey concert scheduled for Tuesday, October 3 at the Bell Centre has been cancelled.
  In addition to the singer-songwriter headliner, PARTYNEXTDOOR and Charli XCX had been set to perform opening acts.
  Promoter Evenko cited “unforeseen production constraints at the venue” as the reason for the cancellation.
  Tickets purchased on Evenko’s website or by phone will automatically be refunded, the promoter said in an email. Concert-goers who purchased their tickets in person, how
  
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